Modernomics* – Daily Writings on Technology
a site by Erik T. Kaiser, Design Technologist
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been getting one particular question more and more… Inquisitive minds wonder: “what is it you do exactly?” and I feel that I have a really great (and vague) answer to share. I like to tell people that I work as a problem solver, helping large enterprises solve their most complex issues. Sometimes I [...]
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I’m a bit surprised that this is just beginning to be a trend… but nevertheless… A recent survey of business leaders, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and commissioned by Accenture, revealed what those IT and business leaders are discussing in their closed-door budget meetings. The results hint at one thing when it comes to [...]
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I’m a bit surprised that this is just beginning to be a trend… but nevertheless… A recent survey of business leaders, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and commissioned by Accenture, revealed what those IT and business leaders are discussing in their closed-door budget meetings. The results hint at one thing when it comes to [...]
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It should be noted that unemployment “stabilized” in November and if the trend continues, we should see the rebound starting to take place. Lawrence H. Summers, President Obama’s top economic advisor, predicted on Sunday that by the spring the ranks of working Americans will start to grow once again. via Summers Predicts Job Growth by [...]
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If technology and systems didn’t come so naturally, I really believe that I would have become an economist. I just find it fascinating. The “business information systems” major was such a perfect fit for my abilities, that I didn’t really think twice about selecting it when I was choosing my major at Lehigh. But, as I [...]
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GREEN BUSINESS – It’s no secret that America is going green. Green jobs are popping up everywhere, whether it’s the technician installing solar panels on a home, the scientist researching ways to build better batteries for electric cars, or the executive looking for ways to reduce waste, eliminate unnecessary packaging, and cut costs. Job growth [...]
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What is a business – anyway? As usual, Wikipedia offers a pretty good definition: “In economics, business is the social science of managing people to organize and maintain collective productivity toward accomplishing particular creative and productive goals, usually to generate profit.” Not surprisingly, as is the case for any highly complex system or entity, this [...]
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In a survey released in September 2008 by KPMG, the audit, tax and advisory firm, two-thirds of those polled said that green technology investment is sustainable. Almost all said they expected venture capital for start-ups producing these technologies to continue to increase in 2009. Half predicted an increase of 20 percent or more over 2008 [...]
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Shoppers expect the tags on Wal-Mart items to have rock-bottom prices. In the future they may also have information about the product’s carbon footprint, the gallons of water used to create it, and the air pollution left in its wake. [via NYTimes]
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